Power unit.



T. S. PATTERSON.

POWER UNIT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1910v Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

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T. S. PATTERSON.

POWER UNIT.

APPLICATION TILED NOV. 25, 1910. 1 1,052 269, Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

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POWER UNIT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1910.

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T. S. PATTERSON.

POWER UNIT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1910.

Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS S. PATTERSON, 0F ROSEMONT, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE INGLE MACHINE COMPANY. OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

POWER UNIT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1 913.

Application filed November 25, 1910. Serial No. 594,137.

To all whom it mag concern Be it known that I, THOMAS larrnnsoN, a subject of the King of (n-eat Britain and Ireland and the lsle pf Man, and a resident of Rosemont, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, have invented certain lutprovenients in Power l nits, of which the following is a specification.

()ne object of n'rvinvention is to provide a combination of apparatus for generating power which shall primarily possess a high efficiency of operation. require a minimum of attention, and shall in addition he relatively compact as to the arrangement of its parts and conveniently transportable as well as possess perfect regulation of its air, and water supply.

Another object of my invention is to pro vide a (annbination of apparatus for generating power from steam in which the heat still retained by the steam after it has beenused to operate an engine to produce power, 7

may be utilized to raise the ten'iperature of the air supplied to the fuel burned in the steam generator. I

A further object of the invention is to providea novel combination of apparatus including a steam generator, steam engine, and an air cooled condensing device whereby the heat of the exhaust steam from said engine may. be etliciently transferred to the air used to support the combustion in the. j furnace of the steam generator: the various 5 parts being, so arranged that the steam used shall at no time. come in contact with the 1 lubricating oil.

These objects and other advantageous ends I secure as hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-:

Figure 1, is a side elevation partly in vertical section and to some extent diagrammatic, illustrating apparatus arranged according to my invention: Fig. 2, is a ver tical section on a somewhat enlarged scale illustrating the detail construction of the steam engine and blower forming part of my invention, and Figs. 3 and t are vertical sections respectively taken on the lines aa and b?;,' Fig. 2.

Referring to Fig. 1 of the above drawings, 1 represents a base structure which in the present instance is in the form of a hollow casing provided with two compartments 2 and 3, of which the first contains a coil or engine and blower 7 it being noted that the Y ash pit or furnace of the boiler is con- ,nected through a pipe 8 with the compartt'ment- 2 of the base, and that the blower,

hereafter described in detail, is connected through a pipe 9 so as to discharge air into said compartment at a point preferably distant from the outlet pipe 8.

The second end of the coil or series of pipes 4 is connected to the steam engine so as to receive the exhaust steamtherefrom, while live steam is delivered from the boiler to the engine through a pipe 10. The pump 11 is mounted in or connected to the hotwell 3 preferably in such position that its connecting rod 12 may be actuated by an eccentric 13 on a shaft H driven by the engine. Any desired device to be driven is connected to the engine through a pulley 15 also mounted on this shaft, and said pump is arranged to forcehot water from the well 3 through a pipe 16 to the lower portion of the boiler G. From the drawings it will be noted that; the engine is of the turbine type, having a supporting structure 17 carried on the cover 3 of the base and provided with a bearing for the rotor shaft 18. At one end this shaft is threaded as indicated at 50 and has mounted on it a nut 51 which, being set in a recess in the end of the sleeve or shaft 14 and inclosed by a cap 52, cooperates with these parts to form a. thrust bearing Wherei by the position of the shaft 18 .maybe a'djusted and its longitudinal movement limited. For holding the nut 51 in any adjusted position, the threaded ends of the shaft 18 1s split and is provided with a threaded cavity in which is placed a correspondin ly threaded taper plug 53. As is evident, 511$ plug when screwed into the end of the shaft, so distort-s this latter as to render movement of the nut 51 practically impossible. The opposite end of the shaft 18 is tapered and threaded as shown in Fig. 2, being provided with a hub 19 to which the rotor 19 is fixed. Said hub fits the taper portion of the shaft and is counterbored'on its outer face for the reception of a nut 54 having a peripheral groove and held in place by a jam nut 55; there being a cap 56 held to the hub by bolts 57 so-a's to cover the end of the shaft with the nuts. These bolts fit into the peripheral groove of the nut 54 and it is noted that this'latter has its outer portion formed of such diameter as to be capable of engaging the end of the hub.

When it is desired to draw the hub. off of the shaft, turning of the nut 54 after the removal of the jam nut 55 causes the'former to bear against the inner ends of the bolts 57 so that through these, said hub is pulled off of the shaft. On the other hand the hub is forced into place by screwing up the nut 54 so as to cause itsouterportion to act on the outer face thereof. The rotor 19 is in- I closed in a casing formed partly by a por tion of the structure 17 and partly by a casting 20 which is made'with interior circular ribs lying in planes parallel to the plane of revolution of the rotor and extending transversely acrossits outersurface' in lines substantially parallel to the" line of the shaft 18; the arrangement being such that said part 20 terminates on one side of the rotor just within the circular path describedby the buckets thereon so as to leave exposed the greater part of one face of the web of the rotor there being a. projecting ring 23 preferably attached to this web and extend- 7 ing toward the 'adjacentedge' of the part'20 of the casing so as to a great extent prevent air entering the turbine casiriga's we'llas to prevent leakage of the steamtherefroin.

The circular vanes 22 are so designed as to absorb to a maximum extentthe heat of the steam which'may come incontact with them, while the vanes 22 are likewise designed to give off to the surrounding air this heatwtrans pitted to them through the part 20 of the casing For thepurpo se of, supplying steam to the turbine and -providing-forits exhaust therefrom, I employ 'a nozzle block'24 inserted in a suitable opening ofa casing structure 25 also mounted upon the part 17' of the engine structure so as to form therewith a blower.. cas ing. This nozzle block in the present instance is bolted to the structure 20and is provided witha passage 26, to one end'of which is connected the steam delivery pipe 10, while its other end is so formed and placed as to deliver steam in the well known manner to the buckets 21 of the turthe interior of the rotor casing after it has acted on the buckets or Vblades'of the turbine. A suitable opening 28 is provided in. .the blower casing structure 25 concentric .17 and 30. The shaft 18 has keyed to it a ernor 38 designed to regulate the flow of directly upon the exposed face of the web of the engine-rotor 19. -'A third casting 30 is connected to the engine supporting structure 17 to form therewith a gear casing through which extends the rotor shaft 18 and in which there is also extended an auxiliary shaft 31 parallel to said shaft; there .being suitablebearings for this auxiliary shaft formed respectively in the structures pinion 32 nd loosely carries uro hollow shaft 14 to which is keyed a-gear 34, while the shaft 31 haskeyedto itoa gear 35 and a pinion 36, of which the first meshes with the pinion 32i and the latter'meshes with the gear 34. I

As before noted a pulley 15 is connected to the'sleeve 14 for the delivery of power generated by the engine to any desired device.

As shown in Fig. 2, the auxiliary shaft 31 extends outside of the gear casing where it has attached to it an extension 37 on which is mounted any suitable form of govsteam to the engine through the pipe 10 so as to cause the rotor of the latter-to turii at a predetermined uniform speed.

I or the purpose of lubricating the various parts of the engine I place oil in the casing formed by the arts 17 and 30 and under operating con itions this is distributied to allparts" of said casing by the various gear wheels. {As a result some of the oil finds its way-into a hollow 58 at the upperportion of the casting 30 from whence it. passes through 'an openingtherein into a containerformedby a properly mounted piece of thin sheet metal 59 'Wherein is placed a body 60 of wool packing. From the bottom ofthis container a number of oil passages are ru'nfto the bearing for the. shaft 14 which is mounted in the casting 30.

In the body of'the-supporting structure 17 is formed an oil well 61 which connects through a suitable opening with' a r'ecess holding a body of'wool packing indicated at 62, and for the purpose of supplying oil to this latter I-provide ribs 63 and 64 designed to lead ,into .it some of the oil thrown off from the gear wheels. I

An oil ring 65 resting on the shaft 18 and extending intothe oil well 61, keeps this latter supplied with oil and for preventing this latter from escaping along the 20 shaft into t'he'steam containing portion of the engine, I groove said shaft or provide it with a shoulder as indicated at 66, leading the 'oil therefrom back to the oil well.

- Under operating conditions steam from 1 passes chine is driven from the pulley 15 to which power is transmitted from the rotor through lution of the rotor it) necessarily draws in air through the opening 28 owing to the provision of the fan blades 29. so that said air is caused to circulate within the casing "formed by the parts 95 and 17, around the runes or ribs 22 of the structure 20. Such air receives heat from said ribs. to which it is transmitted from the steam contacting aith the circular ribs 22. This partially heated air is then discharged through the pipe 9 into the condenser formed by the chamber 2 of the base 1 and the pipes 4. and i caused to circulate around said pipes. which as shown, are connected to the noz zlc block it so as to receive the exhaust steam from the engine. Even though this air be partially heated. it serves to so cool the surfaces of the pipes 4 that the exhaust h'ilill in them is condensed and the air its-elf still further heated. so that on the ne hand hot water is discharged from the lower end of the pipe 4 into the hot well 3 and on the other hand the air heated to a high temperature is discharged from the pipe 8 into the ash pit or furnace of the boiler 6. As will be understood by those skilled in the art. the water in the hot Well is at a high temperature and is discha ged by the pump ll (which is operated from the engine shaft l-l) directly into the boiler. Since the air for combustion of the fuel in the boiler furnace is highly heated. such combustion is materially facilitated and is caused to take place under the conditions tending tothe highest efliciency. Itwill further be noted that the losses in the steam system are exceedingly low since there is al'isolutely no heat lost. between the engine and the boiler except that escaping by radiation and possible leaks; the heat of the exhaust steam being utilized when condens ing the same. for the purpose of heating the air delivered to the boiler furnace. It will be noted further that the apparatus as a whole is exceedingly compact and substantial in construction and lends itself with the greatest ease to the construction of a conveniently operative and easily transportable power unit. By the peculiar engine-blower construgt ion employed, the efficiency of the combindion is still further raised. since any heat radiated from the engine is utilized in raising the temperature of the air operated on by the fan, which owing to its direct con nection to the rotor of the engine, occupies a minimum of space and permits of the greatest economy from a manufacturing as well as from the operating," standpoint. 'lhcre is practically no water iost from the apparatus above described, and owing to the peculiar construction and arrangement of the bearings there is no contamination of the steam by the oil used for lubricating.

I claim 1. The combination in a steam engine of a main supporting structure; a shaft journaled therein: three structures cooperating with said supporting structure to form three chambers: a rotary engine member mounted on the shaft and extending partially into one of the said chambers while having an exposed portion in the second of the chambers: a series of fan blades mounted on said exposed portion in said second chamber: with reducing gearing connected to the shaft and mounted in the third chamber.

2. The combination of a casing having internal and external sets of heat transmitting projections; arotary member in the casing: means for supplying steam to drive said member: and means actuated from this rotary member for forcing air through the external set of heat transmitting projections.

33. The combination of a casing; a steam engine therein having heat transmitting projections on its exterior and interior surfaces: and a blower also in the casing ope atively connected to the steam engine; there being an inlet and an outlet to the casing placed to cause air to circulate over the exterior projections of the steam engine.

4. l'hc combination of two casings one within the other: a rotary member coiiperating with the inner casing to form a steam engine; two sets of heat transmitting pro-- jections respectively mounted on the interior and exterior surfaces of said inner casin and a blower actuated from said rotary member and mounted in the outer casing: there being an inlet and outlet to said latter casing in position to cause air to be circulated by the blower over the external projections of the inner casing so as to be heated thereby. I

5. The combination of two casings, one within the other: the inner casing having interior and exterior projections for the absorption and radiation of heat; a rotary member in the inner casing forming the rotor of a steam engine: and plates in the outer casing connected to said rotor so as to circulate air over the exterior projections of the inner casing.

(3. The combination of two casings one within the other; a rotary member extending into the inner casing and having buckets therein; there being a. series of ribs within the inner casing extending in planes substantially parallel to the plane of revolution of said rotary member; and blower-plates connected to the rotary member; said outer casing having an inlet and an outlet placed to cause the blower plates to circulate air over the inner casing.

7. The combination of two casings one within the other; a rotary member extendin imwr vzving: humus; :li ink-t mu! m with-t .H fur mid 0mm 1115112.

WWW! flutes u'xounted on said rotary meminner msing: projewions in thv innur casing ;1 mvmhor: tlwna hvuw' ribs in ho inner k'zlilllg OXh-Hdillfl' mbsizmiiz-Jh pzunUei 0 The phure fm nlvyinfixpgg'hQM from the stumn therein: and nilm pmjectinus on the outside of the inner musing for wulinting' heat: there being an iniet and an omiet for mid outer casing.

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